Social Networking Suite
 

I'm not sure if this is still the correct place to post suggestions, but here goes.

In 2007/2008 vbulletin proudly announced Social networking features. Then released profile commenting, styling and social groups. Then told us that this was only version 1 and more would be coming...

Now 3 years later not much has happened.

It would be nice if vbulletin would offer official addons and/or new suite functions that allow us to use vb as a full Social Networking platform.

Looking at the feature list of social networking applications like Social Engine (+plugins), PHPFOX, ELGG, we see:

• Activity streams.
• Invitations (member X would like to be your friend/share photos on domain.com. Click here to accept)
• Profile privacy settings
• Status updates
• Advanced memberlists, friends network browsing, interests, categories, interests search, listing top members, members of interests, etc.
• Advanced friends management, friends folders, friends birthdays, tracking/streams, privacy settings, etc
• Profile widgets
• Connect profiles of members with the same interests
• Suggest friends
• Instant Messenger / Facebook IM bar
• Shoutbox
• Chat rooms
• IM gateway
• Advanced Events, RSVP, event categories, group events, images, discussions, etc
• Image gallery with tagging, rating, sharing, privacy
• Advanced Social groups. Like suggested here and here.
• Newsletters
• Reply by email.
• Social sharing on twitter, etc.
• Favourites lists for Photos, Music Songs, Music Albums, User Profiles, Blogs, Videos, posts
• Music directory, ratings, sharing, events, playlists, mobile support,
• Video directory, sharing, events, privacy options.
• Drag & drop site customisation to user preference.
• Mini sites. (personal sites where members can use tools to create their own mini site. i.e. jasperaguila.vbulletin.com) This function seems a 2010 internet trend BTW.

While the last few features are not essential to a Social networking site, the others are.

I know activity streams and an image gallery is already on the road map. Would be nice to see more of the above coming.